It sounds better if it’s called Beastial Wrath, relating to beasts.
Then i looked up and it’s actuallly, BEST-ial Wrath, which is the correct word.
Then i wondered why would anyone name it like that? So i looked up on google what BEASTtial meant…oh my…
I see why now, it’s not called that.
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“Rolls up newspaper” no that’s a bad fox.
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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bestial#English
In Latin the words were symmetrical: bēstia for the noun, bēstialis for the adjective.
The adjective fell out of use for a while, as the noun got inherited into French. So the noun underwent some sound changes. So it got spelled “beste” in French; later “bête”. Later the adjective was borrowed directly into a later stage of French so it’s spelling was unchanged from the Latin aside from getting rid of the inflectional -is ending: bestial. At this point in French the e in “beste” was probably pronounced differently to the e in “bestial” which is what lead to the later spelling.
English inherited both words from Middle French. They spelling it “beste” or “beeste” which indicates the French sound became a long “e” in Middle English. This later raised to a long I sound which is the current pronunciation. It was during this shift that the language’s spelling was “standardised” (the fact that this standard was created during a major vowel shift is what leads to much of the spelling inconsistency in our language) and it became “beast”. The “ea” sound probably represented the original long e sound. The same thing happened to the word “east”. Meanwhile, “bestial” did not have a long e hence the spelling difference.
Later, English speakers pronounced “bestial” as if it were “beastial” to match the noun and make it symmetrical again, even if the spelling doesn’t reflect it.
Disclaimer: this could all be wrong, it’s just what I gathered from Wiktionary + some knowledge about common phonological changes in Latin and English.
beastial
noun
Common misspelling of bestial.
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Synonyms for “bestial” include things like “beastly, brutish, feral, savage, or brutal”. The dictionary also defines it as, “of, relating to, or having the form of a beast:”.